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Helicopter Parents: Leave Your Kids Alone. | PrincipalsPage The Blog
Our society has come to believe we can control our children’s futures by controlling every aspect of their childhood.
Weblogg-ed » I Don’t Need Your Network (or Your Computer, or Your Tech Plan, or Your…)
The problem is, and I can guarantee you this, 95% of the curriculum currently being delivered in those classrooms would waste 95% of the potential in the room that we could glean from that access.
Dealing with My/Our Attention and Information Issues | Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech
No question that how we manage information and how we teach students to manage it will be a huge part of our lives. It is already. I refuse to engage in conversations about "the good old days" in which we usually look back and attribute fonder and more positive memories about the past that we grew up in. It doesn’t really matter anyway. It’s never going to be like that. If, however, you want to discuss timeless values and characteristics that may be forgotten at times, that’s worth my time. I hope these are some timeless principles that I can get better at implementing.
Seth's Blog: Education at the crossroads
Education at the crossroads
Actually, there isn't one, there are three choices that anyone offering higher education is going to have to make.
CK-12.org
CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.
Teacher Training Videos Free on-line training in using technology in teaching
Click on this simple intro to find out how to use the videos. These videos were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology into their teaching. Just click and a video will open and take you through how to use that technology. To start now, just click on any of the links on the left. My own background is in teaching English, so if you scroll down you will see a special section of ELT videos which are grouped separately.
Please Turn on Your Cell Phone: Change Observer: Design Observer
"Mobile devices aren't distractions in schools; they're machines for learning."
Google For Educators
Great posters that you can print for your school or classroom around how to use different google tools.
Twitter Goes to College - US News and World Report
Though Twitter might not yet be quite as popular among students as Facebook or MySpace, a growing cadre of professors and administrators are embracing it and using it to introduce their classes to a different kind of communication and networking—one that doesn't involve "poking" friends or posting photos.
From the Fox Hole
So, on the topic of connecting ... I now understand that connectivism values the pursuit of knowledge and the modern day, forward-thinking, instructor is socially connected to an endless web of contacts, communities, resources, tools and information through a virutal space that is not constrained by time or place.
Weblogg-ed » Transparency = Leadership
So here is the money question: What two things (and only two) would you tell educational leaders are the most important steps they can take to lead change today?
Weblogg-ed » One School’s Journey to Online Social Learning
A great read and PDF of one schools idea on how to create a social network for their students.
Ideas to Inspire
'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities.
MIT Press Journals - International Journal of Learning and Media - Full Text
A Must read from MIT Press on the future of reading....be ready...this one is heavy.
Remote Access: Expanding Your Classroom's Global Perspective
How does information come into your classroom? Who controls it? Who gets to find it and mandate it for use?
Thanks for the Add. Now Help Me with My Homework - News Features & Releases
A new study by alum Christine Greenhow finds social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have more educational potential than you might think.
Weblogg-ed » Personalizing Education for Teachers, Too
Teachers are learners. If they’re not, they shouldn’t be teachers.
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